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The EU is to create its own open-source AI, that supports 30 European languages, and has EU values 'baked in.' (openeurollm.eu)

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[–] cyd 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Why not just put the money into Mistral? Mistral seems to be pretty cash-strapped and they're just about the only EU entity doing anything interesting with LLMs, and they've released open models before. Commissioning a bunch of models from them would be a better use of money than spreading it among a bunch of randos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Why not just put the money into Mistral?

Because they are not, as Silicon Valley/American thinking would have it, trying to "win" some AI Arms Race measured in stock market valuations.

This is so European governments & their civil service, educational institutions, the EU itself has an AI untainted by either American or Chinese values, and also independent of either of them.

[–] cyd 1 points 1 week ago

But Mistral could do all that, with a far lower chance of pissing away the money...